Class Reps

Class Reps - What do we do? 

Being a class rep is an important and rewarding role.  Class reps help build a sense of community among the class parents, and it is they who provide the link between the parents and the PA. Class reps are invited to attend the PA Committee meetings to gain a broader understanding of what the PA does for the school, and to lend their expertise and time if they choose. Below is a summary of what a class rep does.

Attendance of School PA Meetings
Class Reps now attend the Parents association meetings held once a month. This meeting replaces the Class Reps meeting and during the meeting the Class Reps are able to raise any class issues/matters raised by parents/carers.

Parental Help in Class
Liaise closely with the Class teacher to organise parental help in class.  

Communication
Some teachers appreciate help with communication to parents.  Also providing feedback to parents/carers on matters/issues raised.

Maintaining Class Lists
Keeping (and circulating) an up to date list of all the children in the class and their contact details. It is very important to get everyone's permission to be added to the list. This is a very handy list for everyone in the class to have, for everything from play dates to emergency pick-up help!

Organising Socials for Parents
Class coffee mornings and parents’ evenings are always good fun and the most effective way of generating a good team spirit in your class (which makes enlisting volunteers for school fairs much simpler and easier when the time comes).  It is totally at your discretion how often to organise them, although as a general rule, drinks are usually held at Christmas and at the end of the school year, and coffee mornings a minimum of once a term.

Christmas Fair and Summer Fair
Every year group is allocated stalls (seethe relevant pages on this website for each event), and class reps are responsible for co-ordinating the preparation, rota and clearing up, this is a vital role without this help the event would not take place.

Once the fair is over, you are the asked to gather feedback positive or negative and provide them in a written or verbal report. 

New to 2010 we aim to type up the learning’s from individual stalls and uploaded them on the relevant pages of this website.  This we are sure will become invaluable to the following year’s reps and avoids time wasting and wheel reinventing!   We also aim to have detailed information of how to run each stall on this website.

Teacher's Presents
Again this is at your discretion. Sometimes parents prefer to get together and pool money to buy presents for the teacher at Christmas and end of year and if so, the Class Reps co-ordinates this. Class reps also generally co-ordinate a card or similar for the teachers with messages from the children at Christmas and end of year.

Other bits
Sometimes, if children leave Atwood Primary, the Class Reps co-ordinate gift and cards for them.

Next Year's Reps
Towards the end of the year, find a lovely volunteer to rep the next year.

Key Expectations for Events:

Summer Fair:
Class reps asked to volunteer/ help find volunteers for stalls plus help with tidying up after the event.

Christmas Shopping Evening:
Class reps asked to help staff the bar, café, and tidy up at end of night.

Christmas and Summer Fairs:
See the relevant pages on this website!

Other events such as concerts, new parents evening

Class reps are asked to volunteer/help find volunteers to provide refreshments.

Christmas Disco

Class reps are asked to volunteer/help find volunteers to provide refreshments and help with the tidying up after the event.